Dr Robert Ford - publications

Book contribution

• Curtice, J, Fisher, S and Ford, R. "Appendix 2: An analysis of the results." In The British General Election of 2010, 2010. eScholarID:95790
• Ford, R and Somerville, W. "Immigration and the 2010 election: More than meets the eye." In Immigration Under Labour, London: IPPR/Prospect, 2010. eScholarID:104091
• Goodwin, M; Ford, R, Robey, R and Duffy, R. "Who Votes Extreme Right in Twenty-First Century Britain?." In The New Extremism in 21st Century Britain, ed. Eatwell, R and Goodwin, M, -. London: Routledge, 2009. eScholarID:10533
• Ford, R. "Who might vote for the BNP? Survey evidence on the electoral potential of the extreme right in Britain." In The New Extremism in 21st Century Britain, ed. Eatwell, R and Goodwin, M, -. London: Routledge, 2009. eScholarID:8872
• Christopher McCrudden, Ford, R., Anthony Heath. "The Impact of Affirmative Action Agreements." In Fair Employment in Northern Ireland: A Generation On, ed. R. D. Osborne and Ian Shuttleworth, Britain: Blackstaff Press, 2004. eScholarID:3b3086

Journal article

• Ford, R. "Acceptable and unacceptable immigrants: the ethnic hierarchy in British immigration preferences." Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 37, no. 7(2011) : 1017-1037. eScholarID:95785 | DOI:10.1080/1369183X.2011.572423
• Cutts, D, Ford, R and Goodwin, M. "Anti-immigrant, politically disaffected or still racist after all? Examining the drivers of BNP support in the 2009 European Parliament elections." European Journal of Political Research 50, no. 3(2011) : 418-440. eScholarID:95783 | DOI:10.1111/j.1475-6765.2010.01936.x
• Fisher, S; Ford, R; Pickup, M; Jennings, W and Wlezien, C. "From Polls to Votes to Seats: Forecasting the 2010 British Election." Electoral Studies 30(2011) : 250-257. eScholarID:95786 | DOI:10.1016/j.electstud.2010.09.005
• Ford, R; Tilley, J and Heath, A. "Land of my fathers? Economic development, ethnic division and ethnic national identity." Sociological Research Online 16, no. 4(2011) . eScholarID:140196 | DOI:10.5153/sro.2508
• Pickup, M; Matthews, S; Jennings, W; Ford, R and Fisher S. "Why did the polls overestimate Liberal Democrat support? Sources of polling error in the 2010 British General Election." Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties 21, no. 2(2011) : 179-209. eScholarID:127758 | DOI:10.1080/17457289.2011.563309
• Ford, R and Goodwin, M. "Angry White Men: Individual and contextual predictors of support for the British National Party." Political Studies 58, no. 1(2010) : 1-26. eScholarID:73867 | DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9248.2009.00829.x
• Flynn, D; Ford, R and Somerville, W. "Immigration and the 2010 election." Renewal: A Journal of Social Democracy 18, no. 3(2010) . eScholarID:104073
• Ford, R; Cutts, D and Goodwin, M. "Strategic Eurosceptics and Polite Xenophobes: Support for the UK Independence Party (UKIP) in the 2009 European Parliament Elections." European Journal of Political Research(2010) . eScholarID:104071 | DOI:10.1111/j.1475-6765.2011.01994.x
• Blinder, S; Ivarsflaren, E and Ford, R. "The anti-racism norm in Western European immigration politics: Why we need to consider it and how to measure it." Journal of Elections Public Opinion and Parties 20, no. 4(2010) : 421-445. eScholarID:95780 | DOI:10.1080/17457289.2010.511805
• Ford, R. "Is racial prejudice declining in Britain?" British Journal of Sociology 59, no. 4(2008) : 609-636. eScholarID:1b5521 | DOI:10.1111/j.1468-4446.2008.00212.x
• Cheeseman, N and Ford, R. "Ethnicity as a political cleavage." Afrobarometer Working Papers no. 83(2007) . eScholarID:23418
• Ford, R. "Prejudice and white majority welfare attitudes in the UK." Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties 16/2(2006) : 141-156. eScholarID:1b5520
• Christopher McCrudden, Ford, R., Anthony Heath. "Legal Regulation of Affirmative Action in Northern Ireland." Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 24/3(2004) : 363-415. eScholarID:1b5522

Conference contribution

• Blinder, S; Ford, R and Ivarsflaten, I. 2010. Reputational Shields and Anti-Prejudice Norms in Europe's Politics of Immigration. In International Society of Political Psychologists. San Francisco, USA. eScholarID:104008
• Curtice, J, Fisher, S and Ford, R. 2010. The British General Election of 2010: The Results Analyzed. In Elections, Public Opinion and Parties annual conference. University of Essex. eScholarID:103998
• Fisher, S; Ford, R; Jennings, W; Pickup, M and Wlezien, C. 2010. The Polls and the Vote in the UK. In Elections, Public Opinion and Parties Conference. University of Essex. eScholarID:104003
• Goodwin, M; Ford, R and Cutts, D. 2009. Far Right Footsoldiers: deprivation, extremist legacies and BNP membership. In Elections, Public Opinion and Parties conference. Glasgow. eScholarID:104065
• Ford, R. 2009. Grey nativists vs melting pot youth? Diversity, age and racial attitudes in Europe. In European Survey Research Association Conference29 June 2009 - 03 July 2009. Warsaw, Poland. eScholarID:10614
• Ford, R. 2009. Is patriotism valuable? Evidence from Britain. In Political Studies Association Annual Conference07 April 2009 - 09 April 2009. Manchester. eScholarID:10600
• Ford, R; Curtice, J and Fisher, S. 2009. Mr Griffin goes to Strasbourg: The BNP in the 2009 European Parliament Elections. In Elections, Public Opinion and Parties Conference. Glasgow. eScholarID:104063
• Curtice, J; Fisher, S and Ford, R. 2009. Second Order Signals? An Aggregate Data Analysis of the 2009 Euro elections in Britain. In Elections, Public Opinion and Parties conference. Glasgow. eScholarID:104013
• Cutts, D; Ford, R, Goodwin,M; Widdop, P and John P. 2009. The BNP in urban local elections: a spatial model of aggregate date from Leeds and Birmingham. In European Consortium for Political Research conference. Potsdam, Germany. eScholarID:104017
• Ford,R, Goodwin,M and John,P. 2009. The Far Right in the 2006-8 English Local Elections: Is There Spatial Dependence?. In Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference02 April 2009 - 05 April 2009. Chicago, United States. eScholarID:10607
• Nicholas Cheeseman, Ford, R. 2008. Ethnicity and Party Support in Africa: The Limits of ‘Census Politics’. In American Political Science Association annual conference. Boston, United States. eScholarID:2b953
• Ford, R. 2008. Nationalism and attitudes to ethnic minorities in Britain. In Political Studies Association annual conference. eScholarID:2b954
• Ford, R. 2008. Not all immigrants are equal: the ethnic hierarchy in British immigration preferences. In Manchester-Harvard Summer School on Immigration. eScholarID:2b951
• Scott Blinder, Ford, R., Elisabeth Ivarsflaten. 2008. The anti-racism norm in West European politics: Why we need to consider it and how to measure it. In American Political Science Association Annual Conference. eScholarID:2b952
• Nicholas Cheeseman, Ford, R. 2007. Ethnicity as a Political Cleavage. In Afrobarometer Conference. eScholarID:2b950
• Ford, R. 2007. Powell and after: Immigration, race and politics in Britain 1970-2003. In Political Studies Association annual conference. eScholarID:2b955
• Ford, R. 2006. Immigration at the 2005 general election. In Political Studies Association annual conference. eScholarID:2b957
• James Tilley, Anthony Heath, Ford, R. 2006. Why does nationalism differ across nations? An empirical investigation of the factors which cause different forms of nationalism to emerge in different contexts. In International Sociological Association conference. eScholarID:2b956
• Ford, R. 2004. Prejudice and white majority welfare attitudes in the UK. In Elections, Public Opinion and Parties conference. Oxford. eScholarID:104069

Report

• Ford, R. 2012. Parochial and Cosmopolitan Britain: Examining the social divide in reactions to immigration. eScholarID:140199
• Saggar, S; Somerville, W; Ford, R and Sobolewska, M. 2011. The Impact of Migration on Social Cohesion and Integration. eScholarID:140197